Bad Weddings and Wedding Trends - sperg about weddings here

[Fialovy]

Found another weird unity ceremony on Weddingwire (technically a two in one because they were going to do a unity tequila shot, which... wat?!) I guess maybe painting is a little better than mixing wine because you have a commemorative painting to hang on your wall? Still, there is the mess like she is concerned about. I guess if you were going to do that maybe a smock for your dress and suit?



Also, can we talk about honeymoons? One thing I don't understand is those couples who go to Disney World/Disneyland for their honeymoon. It just screams childish to me. Normally I don't usually care where people go on their honeymoon, but I am having a hard time understanding why. I can't think of any other bad places to go on honeymoons off the top of my head aside from maybe Legoland, but that is kind of similar.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Also, can we talk about honeymoons? One thing I don't understand is those couples who go to Disney World/Disneyland for their honeymoon. It just screams childish to me.

Something, something, "youthful energy"? Maybe? I dunno what made Disneyland/Disney World a popular honeymoon destination.

My parents did a second honeymoon at SeaWorld which is probably more worth it than any other theme parks, but I don't know why anyone would want to go some super fancy outdoor attraction when chances are likely the two of you will be in your suite room for 2/3rds of your time there. Rich assholes can rent out an entire beach coast for themselves to roll around on, I reckon.

 

[Fialovy]

I found another post I remember about a bride who doesn't know how to crochet anything at all wanting to crochet a bouquet. Which... just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. You should never DIY something for a wedding where you don't know the craft unless is it super basic else it will turn out terrible or just leave you really stressed.

Spoiler: crochet sperging

Crocheted the doilies for my centerpieces at my wedding. If it wasn't for the fact I had well over a decade of experience and a long engagement and therefore more time on my hands I am pretty certain I wouldn't be able to do it. I just can't imagine a bride with zero experience crochet flowers for a bouquet when I remember myself as a beginner it isn't just learning how to do the stitches but also practicing your tension and getting used to holding your hook and yarn and who knows how fast she will be able to learn. There are a lot of skills that you need to make flowers, especially 3D flowers for a bouquet in addition to your basic single and double crochets too. It is definitely an intermediate project, especially for a wedding where there is more pressure for it to look nice. She would have to start some more beginner friendly projects before attempting a bouquet, but that of course eats up valuable time in addition to planning the wedding and having what I assume a full time job and raising a kid (in her other posts she mentions she has a child) on top of it, she is setting herself up by failure with a deadline, it overall just sounds really stressful.

 

[MysticMisty]

Found another weird unity ceremony on Weddingwire (technically a two in one because they were going to do a unity tequila shot, which... wat?!) I guess maybe painting is a little better than mixing wine because you have a commemorative painting to hang on your wall? Still, there is the mess like she is concerned about. I guess if you were going to do that maybe a smock for your dress and suit?

Unless both people are artists and familiar with painting I'd say it's a horrible idea. You'd also ideally need to speedpaint too, and that still can take quite a bit of time, even if you know what you're going to paint and set everything up ahead of time. Most likely these people just slapped some paint randomly on a canvas and probably just looks terrible.

 

[DoorPost101]

Found another weird unity ceremony on Weddingwire (technically a two in one because they were going to do a unity tequila shot, which... wat?!) I guess maybe painting is a little better than mixing wine because you have a commemorative painting to hang on your wall? Still, there is the mess like she is concerned about. I guess if you were going to do that maybe a smock for your dress and suit?

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Also, can we talk about honeymoons? One thing I don't understand is those couples who go to Disney World/Disneyland for their honeymoon. It just screams childish to me. Normally I don't usually care where people go on their honeymoon, but I am having a hard time understanding why. I can't think of any other bad places to go on honeymoons off the top of my head aside from maybe Legoland, but that is kind of similar.

Disney is cheap compared to a lot of vacation packages (and god forbid you go in for a travel package listed as a honeymoon, that price is going to get jacked up insane) and they also have comparatively cheap perks for newly married couples. I attended a Disney wedding and the experience was surprisingly grown up, and the parks provided a lot of child-friendly activity for the kids there that week. (Weddings are boring for kids, and they will be a lot nicer behaved if they know they can meet Mickey Mouse afterwards.)

 

[Fialovy]

Disney is cheap compared to a lot of vacation packages (and god forbid you go in for a travel package listed as a honeymoon, that price is going to get jacked up insane) and they also have comparatively cheap perks for newly married couples. I attended a Disney wedding and the experience was surprisingly grown up, and the parks provided a lot of child-friendly activity for the kids there that week. (Weddings are boring for kids, and they will be a lot nicer behaved if they know they can meet Mickey Mouse afterwards.)

I suppose I just am a bit jaded due to how Disney fans are often a bunch of womanchildren who do nothing but mindlessly consoom product

Also, how do you guys feel about Trash the Dress Photoshoots? Basically, after the wedding, people just take pictures of themselves ruining the wedding dress either via being submerged or playing in water or paint among other things. I find that even more wasteful than just wearing a new dress once. At least resell the dress. There are websites you can list the dress for brides to be to buy it and get it some more life out of it.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

I suppose I just am a bit jaded due to how Disney fans are often a bunch of womanchildren who do nothing but mindlessly consoom product

Also, how do you guys feel about Trash the Dress Photoshoots? Basically, after the wedding, people just take pictures of themselves ruining the wedding dress either via being submerged or playing in water or paint among other things. I find that even more wasteful than just wearing a new dress once. At least resell the dress. There are websites you can list the dress for brides to be to buy it and get it some more life out of it.

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I think with the way the wedding dress prices are going, It would be a good idea to keep the wedding dress to hand it down to a daughter/granddaughter. Older wedding dresses looked better and were more humble anyway. Either way these people are wasting potentially thousands of dollars for pictures that no one will ever look at for more than 5 seconds.

 

[Din Djarin]

So I found some wedding hats plus a flower crown. I don't mind flower crowns, but they were literally everywhere a few years ago and IMHO they look really ugly with roses or other bigger poofier flowers. As for the hats, I don't really hat wedding hats, I think they can work (think Angel Lily and Angel Daisy's wedding dresses in Wedding Peach, those hats actually look nice), but these ones are ugly.

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and a flower crown:

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That is not my experience with bachelorette parties, in my experience, they can be just as wild as the boys, but I get what you are saying.

I'm definitely not a fan of the bigger flower crowns, but I really do like when little flowers are kind of woven into the hair (if that makes any sense). I think it's cute because it doesn't take away from anything else.

 

[Mealy Mouth Spittle]

I suppose I just am a bit jaded due to how Disney fans are often a bunch of womanchildren who do nothing but mindlessly consoom product

Also, how do you guys feel about Trash the Dress Photoshoots? Basically, after the wedding, people just take pictures of themselves ruining the wedding dress either via being submerged or playing in water or paint among other things. I find that even more wasteful than just wearing a new dress once. At least resell the dress. There are websites you can list the dress for brides to be to buy it and get it some more life out of it.

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Hate it. I've saved mine in case my daughter wants to wear it someday (but it's totally cool if she doesn't). If she doesn't want it, I'll donate it. Someone on a budget might like to find it in a thrift store. Or it could be refashioned and dyed and made into a non-bridal dress if someone was talented in that department. Such a waste (and peak consumerism) to trash your wedding dress after.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

Yeah hair Vines are probably my favourite

Spoiler: ugly flower crowns

Spoiler: Pretty hair vines

 

[Fialovy]

Yeah hair Vines are probably my favourite

Spoiler: ugly flower crowns

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Spoiler: Pretty hair vines

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Ooooooooh, hair vines are super pretty. I guess with me I don't mind flower crowns on the flower girl, but they should be smaller flowers especially since it is on the head of a child and would otherwise overwhelm her.

I was going through some of the archives of The Knot and I found a thread about someone who wanted live fish on their cake table and someone who commented on another thread that they want fish as their centerpiece to represent how they met on Plenty of Fish.




Of course, people told them that would be cruel to the fish, but then someone came and made a thread complaining that everyone who eats fish who doesn't think fish should be centerpieces is a hypocrite.

Spoiler

Honestly, I am kind of glad nobody considers using live fish anymore. I think that trend of people wanting to do it did kind of die out when flowers submerged in water died out. Flowers submerged in water was another very 2000s trend I remember from my older cousin's weddings. One of my cousin's weddings back in 2005 had a centerpiece that looked almost exactly like this: with a rose submerged in water in the middle to sort of look like Beauty and the Beast I guess:


But they are typically grouped in threes topped with candles:

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Yeah hair Vines are probably my favourite

Spoiler: ugly flower crowns

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Spoiler: Pretty hair vines

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Those big bulky ones look like whole ass Thanksgiving centerpieces that are supposed to have one of those huge 4-wick candles in the center. Meanwhile, the small, delicate blossoms and leafy vines look amazing and classy.

The flowers suspended in water look like that jelly candle fad that died out because it just ends up looking kind of tacky, sadly. I say "sadly" because I love the idea that it was going for and it had a lot of potential, but just doesn't come together IMO.

As for the live fish, I don't think it's cute to put live animals in those situations and use them as decorations. Imagine trying to pull that shit with birds or lizards or something. And what in the hell is that dumb bitch screeching about at the end of the day? Does she not realize that she defended animal cruelty for meat eaters and grandstanded vegetarianism without being one herself? How the piss in her potato of a head does she equate killing animals for food with torturing them while they're alive just for fun? And who does she think she's kidding if she's telling people that they need to worry about their own life choices more overall if they can't control everyone who manages to get onto the guest list? Children, relatives and relatives of close friends are why we can't have nice things at events, after all. Of course some jackass kid or manchild is going to do some shit to at least one of the fish bowls like put food or booze in the bowl or even poke at the poor thing with the silverwear. What exactly was her thought process there?

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Also, how do you guys feel about Trash the Dress Photoshoots? Basically, after the wedding, people just take pictures of themselves ruining the wedding dress either via being submerged or playing in water or paint among other things. I find that even more wasteful than just wearing a new dress once. At least resell the dress. There are websites you can list the dress for brides to be to buy it and get it some more life out of it.

Exactly. And these are the harpies that sit on whatever social platform all day bitching about the environment. My wedding dress cost a ton, so I kept it.

 

[nennexx]

These rings are typically limited stock and only sold for a short period of time sadly. For example, the Shinji and Kaworu rings were sold in Jan 2015 for roughly a month.

will never be proposed to with kaworu and shinji rings
why live

 

[MysticMisty]

Goldfish aren't even that attractive for use as a centerpiece anyways, with those big rope shits they take. But even if you used prettier fish (that aren't likely to have an inch long shit dangling from them mid reception) I still wouldn't like the idea. Even if you didn't have to worry about drunk/trashy guests and/or awful kids it's still a very stressful situation. It's one thing to keep animals as pets responsibly, but using a living animal as a decorative piece in a party (any party) is just not right, period.

 

[Fialovy]

Here is another post from Weddingbee that I remember. It is titled "My husband is too cheap." Everything about this screams spoiled brat.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

I remember several years ago when burlap was the big thing. It doesn't inherently look bad but when EVERYBODY is doing it...

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Also, how do you guys feel about Trash the Dress Photoshoots? Basically, after the wedding, people just take pictures of themselves ruining the wedding dress either via being submerged or playing in water or paint among other things. I find that even more wasteful than just wearing a new dress once. At least resell the dress. There are websites you can list the dress for brides to be to buy it and get it some more life out of it.

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Least they let you know within the first word that the trend is trashy. What a waste, I bet the dress designers get strokes from seeing these pictures.

Yeah hair Vines are probably my favourite

Spoiler: ugly flower crowns

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Spoiler: Pretty hair vines

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Tumblr ruined flower crowns for me, so at least the hair vines are alright. Also it's hilarious that the two women wearing the flower crowns look like crazy broads with the eye bags in a vain attempt to regain their youth.

So for the wedding tax, I wouldn't know what to categorize this as, I guess bad wedding-themed commercials? Sucg as this infamous Skittles commercial:

EDIT: OH, I just realized what that shitty "Sailor Moon" themed color-patchwork dress is actually referencing.

 

[Fareal]

My lowkey-lolcow friend did Trash The Dress a while after her first divorce as a symbol of "how shitty her marriage had been".

She did file for divorce number two mere weeks after the Trashing as she moved in with divorce number three though, so there was probably a lack of insight there.

I believe the other dresses were resold. Number four has held on remarkably strongly so far, he might even make a decade before being promoted to ex husband.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

What a waste, I bet the dress designers get strokes from seeing these pictures.

Hah, I wish! The designers and manufacturers are the ones who want all of us to buy brand new dresses and never even have the thought occur to us that reusing one is even a possible option. The wedding industry probably jerks off watching those expensive, "necessary" components being physically destroyed in order to 'ensure' another future sale.

CONSPIRITARD THOUGHT: What if the powers that be in the wedding industry are pulling legal and connective strings behind the scenes to make sure that no charitable or resale programs for wedding dresses can get off of the ground on a significant level? For all of the charities I've heard of, I don't recall ever hearing of one for getting used donated wedding gowns or tuxes to lower income couples, which seems like a very obvious cause in my opinion. I have no idea if this is the case, it's just that I've found out about a lot more outlandish charity conspiracies turning out to be true (like over half a dozen breast cancer charity fiascoes), and something like this wouldn't surprise me in the slightest knowing what the bloodsucking wedding industry is already like on the bare surface.